Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133

[Felix Winkelmann]

> Sounds like candidates for "lolevel subset" APIs. There are also a room
> for leveraging Chicken close relationship with C when optimizing code.
> We have some bottlenecks where Scheme is "too high level" but using its
> C API directly is too troublesome. It would be nice to have some more
> low level stuff conveniently exposed to Scheme side.

What stuff would you like to see?

> We are hooking logging system (extracting file, line number information
> basically) through user-passes. There are also potential use cases like
> externally getting module dependency information (sort of like gcc -M
> options). It is a nice feature to abuse.

Ah, ok. Good to know.


felix